Re: Design shift of view

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

I couldn't sleep so I thought I would check my mail. I'm not sure who will be
sorrier, you or me. ;-)

If you could achieve this by replaceing a CHAIN/READ with a CALL (without 
needing
to know what -really- happens), whould you adopt never having to take an
application out of production?

WSU? between that and the mere mention of DE/RPG, I know for sure I won't get 
any
peaceful sleep. ;-)

boothm@ibm.net wrote:

> I know a few programmers that would absolutely love this solution.  They'd
> adopt it in a heartbeat.  They'd never quite understand it, but they'd
> adopt it.
>
> The resulting quagmire makes me twitch.  I still have three WSU programs I
> need to maintain.  This is not my idea of fun.  Please don't add new
> conceptual stuff that can not be effectively implemented by average
> programmers.  The stuff requiring expert and expert-plus programmers may
> serve a purpose somewhere, but hopefully no place I go.
>
> In <35BA882E.1FC369E8@ibm.net>, on 07/25/98
>    at 06:36 PM, "James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@ibm.net> said:
>
> >  Well, if we can
> >pass a variable number of parameters to a program, why couldn't a RDMS
> >pass a variable number of variables?  If we can have a variable number if
> >variables, we eliminate the "fixed" unit record (card) mentality of disk
> >storage.
>
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